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Getting started

Creating your first campaign

In this article: the five steps of the wizard, from your website URL to a ready-to-publish campaign, and what you set in each step.

Step 1Paste your website

Start a new project and enter your website address. You can optionally add extra context: free text that is taken into account as a supplement to the analysis. If you are a non-profit with a Grants account, this is where you turn on Google Ad Grants mode.

AdBuilder then goes through three phases with live progress: creating the project, crawling your website and the AI analysis. As soon as that is finished, you move on to the next step.

Step 2Confirm your business details

You see what the analysis derived from your site and add to it where needed: brand name, industry and audience, plus your themes (feed the generic campaign), products or services (feed the specific campaign) and USPs. Everything is presented as selectable chips, with a "Generate more" button.

This is also where you choose your target countries, the ad language, an optional phone number (for the call extension) and the tone of voice: imitate the site, or professional, casual, technical or friendly.

Step 3Set up the campaigns

Choose which campaign types you want (Brand and Generic are on by default) and set the daily budget, location targeting, ad scheduling and bid strategy per campaign. You also set your main goal and whether your conversion tracking is already working. That influences the keyword and bidding choices.

Step 4Exclusions

You define which competitors and which words or themes you want to exclude, and which reusable exclusion lists are applied to all campaigns. This way you prevent overlap and unwanted traffic before anything goes live.

Step 5Generate, review and publish

AdBuilder now generates the full campaign. In the review screen you edit everything inline, see warnings (character limits and policy) and have version history. Once you are happy, you connect your Google Ads account and publish. You decide yourself which campaigns go "On" (live) or "Off" (paused).

The campaign overview with an On/Off toggle per campaign
After building, you see your campaigns in the overview: each campaign with an On/Off toggle, its type, the daily budget and the status.

TroubleshootingWhen the wizard gets stuck

If your site could not be read, it is usually behind a login or a firewall (for example Cloudflare) is blocking the crawler. In that case, provide extra context in step 1 or try a different, publicly reachable URL. You can read more about this in "Connecting your Google Ads account" and "How website analysis works".

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